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Twitter users will now be able to capture and share homemade videos directly on the site in what could be a game-changing feature, just as photos helped crystallize the significance of the social-media service. Read More »

A top YouTube operations executive is leaving the Google-owned video-streaming service, extending a string of management departures from the unit.

Tom Pickett, Google’s vice president for YouTube content, told employees this week that he was leaving to take the chief executive post at another company that he did not name. Pickett did not reply to an email requesting comment.

The unit’s top operations executive globally, Pickett was responsible for policy and other initiatives including “YouTube Spaces,” which provides studio space to content creators to produce videos for the site. He also oversaw the teams that managed YouTube’s relationships with top content networks like Maker Studios and Fullscreen. Read More »

These days, it seems, you’re nobody in the Chinese Internet unless you have a film studio.

Youku Tudou Inc., one of China’s biggest online video companies, said on Thursday that it would launch its new film studio, Heyi Film Inc. It told reporters that the studio would invest in no fewer than eight big-screen films and no fewer than nine online films every year. It also plans to first make five of its originally produced online shows into big-screen films. Read More »

YouTube has approached many of the site’s top video-makers in recent weeks, offering to fund additional programming in return for a portion of the proceeds when creators distribute the content elsewhere, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

Negotiations are said to be in their early stages, according to these people. The terms that YouTube is offering aren’t clear, nor the aggregate amount the company is looking to invest. Read More »

Even as the number of paid streaming-video services like Netflix and Hulu become more accessible on gadgets, built into TVs and installed on videogame consoles, people watching video online still prefer free. Read More »